Position of Encke's Comet in the Sky

The current position of Encke's Comet is computed using high quality data sets
provided by the JPL Horizons ephemeris service (see acknowledgements).
It is important to be aware that for objects like comets there might be large discrepancies between the predicted magnitude and the real one.
This happens because comets magnitude is highly influenced by physical phenomena which can be hardly modelled and calculated in advance.

Current close conjunctions

List of bright objects (stars brighter than magnitude 9.0 and galaxies brighter than magmitude 14.0) close to Encke's Comet (less than 1.5 degrees):